Gaming Collection

Bunny girls at the Playboy Club, London 1969
Bunny girls operate gaming tables at the Playboy Club in London which opened in 1966. Date: 1969

Roulette, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Roulette table at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

4th Earl Sandwich
JOHN MONTAGU Traditionally held to be the inventor of the sandwich for eating at the gaming table

Rakes Progress 6
The Rakes Progress 6. Gaming house scene - a rowdy bunch

Petits Chevaux (little horses) Room, Casino, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Northern France, with gaming tables. Date: circa 1910s

English Regency naval officer settling his gambling debts
An English naval officer settles his gambling debts with a debt collector in a hotel room

People with roulette wheel, Nevada, USA
People gathered around a roulette wheel, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Harolds Club at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA
Harolds Club at night with its giant ceramic mural, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA, with the Reno Club on the right. Date: 1949

Club Row at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

Binions Horseshoe Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- one million dollars in cash on display in the form of one hundred ten thousand dollar bills, inside a giant golden horseshoe. circa 1964

The Roulette Gaming Table, by G A Sala Date: 1866

Death and a black Demon battle over the Gambler at the gaming table

Belsize House
View of Belsize House in 1800. Belsize House was rebuilt in 1663 in the restoration style. In 1720 it opened as a pleasure garden with concerts, dancing, fishing, hunting and racing

Old Tennis Court
The old Tennis court near the Haymarket, London, appears to have formed part of Piccadilly Hall, a celebrated gaming house established about 1635

Dining Room, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Dining Room, The Golden Nugget, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1946

Bucking the Tiger, early days of gambling in Nevada, USA, showing men at a Faro Table. Date: circa 1900s

Crap Table, Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Crap Table, Las Vegas Club, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940

Tango Room, Club Fortune, Reno, Nevada, USA
Tango Room, Club Fortune, East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1938

Saloon, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Saloon, The Golden Nugget, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1946

Cafe Bauer on Rossplatz, Leipzig, Germany - containing gaming rooms and billard room. Date: circa 1905

People with Wheel of Fortune, Nevada, USA
People with a Wheel of Fortune at a gambling club in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

The Golden Girls floor show, Reno, Nevada, USA
The Golden Girls nightly floor show, Golden Bank Casino, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1950s

Harrahs Club at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

Street in Lovelock, Nevada, USA
Street in Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada, USA, with Felixs Bank Club in the foreground. Date: circa 1953

Matchbook, Hotel El Rancho, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- stop at the sign of the windmill. Date: early 1940s

Neon signs in Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1968

Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Las Vegas Club, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1947

Pioneer Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Night view of the Pioneer Club and Cocktail Lounge, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1950

Joe W Browns Horseshoe Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Joe W Browns Horseshoe Club, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- one million dollars in cash on display in the form of one hundred ten thousand dollar bills, inside a giant golden horseshoe

Men Playing Cards Date: 1948

Knave of Hearts Date: 1880

GAMING DEN / MYTTON
A hell of a row in a hell. Mytton shows fight. A brawl breaks out amongst some high- spirited gents in a gaming den. Included is the eccentric squire John Mytton (1796-1834) Date: 1820s

RAKES PROGRESS 6
6. Gaming house scene Date: 1735

Men smoke and play a game of checkers in Canton, China
Viewed from above, a group of men smoke and play a game of checkers in a Canton street, Guangzhou, China Date: 1986

The Gaming Room by Thomas Rowlandson
A typically riotous scene by Thomas Rowlandson depicting men in a gaming room. Date: 24 November 1930

USA - Montana Cowboys have a little disagreement over cards. The Actors are playing it straight with Poker faces, although the cowboy on the draw is looking a little bit flush-ed

Gaming table at a club, with some possible cheating going on. circa late 18th century

Monte Carlo advertisement, 1935
Advertisement for Monte Carlo on the French Riviera featuring an illustration and alluring description of the Summer Sporting Club

Health, Wealth and All Prosperity. The scene of a fun evening - pipes, cigarettes and cigars have been smoked, cards have been played and ale and whiskey have been drunk! Date: circa 1909

French Gaming Tables
Two French tables a jeu (gaming tables) in black wood with fillets of copper, both in the Louis XVI style. Date: circa 1860

French Scene / Munster / C16
A whole variety of activites being pursued in the French countryside, some pious, some sporting, some agricultural and some scientific across a range of social standings Date: 1553

H. G. Wells and his war game, WW1
H.G.Wells playing Little Wars

Virginia Street at night, Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: 1949

Bright Lights of Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: 1941

Scene in the Bank Club, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1930

21 Club Casino, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
21 Club Casino, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 20th century

Mural painting, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Mural painting of gamblers and dancers, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 20th century

The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Night view of The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

Main room, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

The Northern Club, Center Street, Reno, Nevada, USA
Scene at The Northern Club, 207 Center Street, Reno, Nevada, USA Date: 1931

Fourth Earl Sandwich
JOHN MONTAGU fourth earl of SANDWICH, naval commander who spent 24 hours at the gaming table sustained by slices of beef placed between slices of bread... Date: 1718 - 1792

Japan - Geisha girls playing Go
Three Japanese Geisha girls in Japan, playing the popular boardgame Go in their beautiful Kimonos, while enjoying tea. Date: circa 1900

Shenyang city, Liaoning Province, China - Kasugacho Street
Shenyang city, Liaoning Province, China - The lively (Commercial) Kasugacho (Kasuga-Cho) Street - small inset illustration of three men playing the traditional Chines boardgame Go. Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - Sotho Boys play cards for arm bangles. The Sotho people (Basotho or Basuto) are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

Le tapis vert, the gaming table of Baden Baden. Date c1883

John Law (Card)
JOHN LAW Scottish financier in France, where he promoted the Mississippi scheme. His initial funding came from success at the gaming table. Date: 1671 - 1729

Tableau for Trente & Quarante
A description of the playing board and full rules for the populare French game of Trente & Quarante favoured by gamers at the Monte Carlo casinos and in Nice

Numero Un
Glamorous couple stood in front of the gaming tables at a casino

Afternoon, Monte Carlo: A Sketch By Sir John Lavery, R. A
Sir John Laverys impression of the gaming rooms at the world famous casino in Monte Carlo

C18 Gaming Table
A GAMING TABLE, for a miniature form of boules, Louis XIV period

Sandwich / John Montagu
JOHN MONTAGU 4th EARL of SANDWICH Statesman attributed with the invention of the sandwich (1762) to be eaten at the gaming table

Syntax / Gaming House
Doctor Syntax at a gaming house

Traviata - Liebig - 4
Act two, scene 14 : at Floras ball, Alfredo calls the company to witness that he pays his debts, and flings his gaming winnings at Violettas feet

French Gaming House C16
Gambling with cards and dice in a French gaming house

Crockfords Club House on St Jamess Street

Gaming Fashions / Alken
Gentlemen wear top boots, top hats with the crown wider at the top, cossacks, coats with roll collars, tails & cut-away at the front & strapped pantaloons. One wears glasses

Apprentice Indenture
Indenture, whereby Charles Midwinter junior is bound apprentice to John Anthony Gray, London stationer, for seven years. Gaming and taverns are discouraged

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